Teachers, School Leaders, and Public Scholars Developing an Ecosystems Approach to Growing Educator Capacity

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session describes the process and early outcomes of the Instructional Leadership Corps (ILC), a collaborative project of the California Teacher Association, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, and the National Board Resource Center. The ILC brings teachers and site-based leaders together with researchers to develop expertise in growing the local capacity necessary for implementing the new California Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. Researchers and teachers collaborated in the development and implementation of research-based strategies to bring the new CA standards into the classroom. By making teaching and learning visible, sharable, and thus improvable, the work of the ILC makes teaching, and the development of teaching and leadership practices, a form of public scholarship.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Justo Ll. Robles, California Teachers Association

Participants

• Eric Heins, California Teachers Association

• Jon D. Snyder, Stanford University

• Esther Wu, Mountain View High School